Took off from Lahar on an anti-submarine patrol.
Aircraft crashed nine miles south of Cape Orlando, Sicily at Gelati Mamertino.
Killed includes Walker: Flying Officer William Freeman Campbell RCAF J/22247 KIA Agira Canadian War Cemetery, Enna, Sicily Warrant Officer Class I Harold Gordon Reid RCAF R/92101 pilot KIA Catania War Cemetery, Sicily, Flight Sergeant Walter Downes Cock RAAF 421344 KIA Catania War Cemetery, Sicily, Coll. Graves I. H. 36-38. Flight Sergeant Carol James Daley RAAF 414537 KIA Catania War Cemetery, Sicily, Grave II. H. 37. Flight Sergeant Gordon George Wilde RNZAF 403241 KIA Catania War Cemetery, Sicily, grave II. H. 39.